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New era and challenges for a consolidated journal in educational technology in higher education

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Editorial

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Editorial

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

OER adoption: a continuum for practice

Whilst Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for broadening participation in Higher Education, reducing course development and study costs, and building open collaborative partnerships to improv...

Authors: Adrian Stagg

OER in practice: Organisational change by bootstrapping

In this paper, we investigate an approach to institutional change that aims to establish open educational practices (OEP) in a university and inculcate the use of open education resources (OER) as part of its ...

Authors: John Hannon, Simon Huggard, Annabel Orchard and Nick Stone

The evolution of open access to research and data in Australian higher education

Open access (OA) in the Australian tertiary education sector is evolving rapidly and, in this article, we review developments in two related areas: OA to scholarly research publications and open data. OA can s...

Authors: Vicki Picasso and Liam Phelan

‘Fit for Purpose’: a cohort-centric approach to MOOC design

How do you design a quality massive open online course (MOOC) that will be ‘fit for purpose’? The Understanding Dementia MOOC is an initiative of the University of Tasmania’s Wicking Dementia Research and Educ...

Authors: Carolyn King, Kathleen Doherty, Jo-Anne Kelder, Fran McInerney, Justin Walls, Andrew Robinson and James Vickers

Open Educational Resources: a regional university’s journey

In a region of geographically scattered, small island states, developing quality-enhanced learning materials across the hugely diverse, predominantly ocean-based learning and teaching environments, continues t...

Authors: Theresa Koroivulaono

Conversations from south of the equator: Challenges and Opportunities in OER across Broader Oceania

Recent decades have witnessed a number of fundamental structural shifts, both internally within the higher education academy and external to it, that have transformed the character of universities. A universal...

Authors: Rosalind James and Carina Bossu

Bibliometric profile of RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal

For this study we conducted a bibliometric analysis of RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal in order to determine the characteristics of its scientific content. We analyzed 216 theoretical and empiric...

Authors: María Teresa Ramiro Sánchez, Tamara Ramiro-Sánchez and Rubén Alba-Ruiz

Editorial

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Special Issue: E-learning in the Disciplines of Economics and Business Studies

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Temporal learning analytics visualizations for increasing awareness during assessment

Visual representations of student-generated trace data during learning activities help both students and instructors interpret them intuitively and perceive hidden aspects of these data quickly. In this paper,...

Authors: Zacharoula Papamitsiou and Anastasios A. Economides

Log Analysis in a Virtual Learning Environment for Engineering Students

The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at different educational levels has impacted the teaching-learning process. ICTs have effectively become tools that support educational environments...

Authors: Gilles Lavigne, Genoveva Gutiérrez Ruiz, Lewis McAnally-Salas and Javier Organista Sandoval

Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: differences, similarities, and time evolution

Technological progress in recent decades has enabled people to learn in different ways. Universities now have more educational models to choose from, i.e., b-learning and e-learning. Despite the increasing opp...

Authors: Laura Calvet Liñán and Ángel Alejandro Juan Pérez

Relationship between hours spent on the Internet and Web 2.0 in Higher Education

This article analyses the relationship between the number of hours spent by university students on the Internet and their attitude, training, use, impact and perception of difficulties in Web 2.0 integration, ...

Authors: Ángel Boza Carreño and Sara Conde Vélez

21^st-Century Instructional Designers: Bridging the Perceptual Gaps between Identity, Practice, Impact and Professional Development

The purpose of this paper is to discuss instructional designers’ current status through a brief discussion of the history of instructional design, comparison of instructional design models, and a presentation ...

Authors: Afsaneh Sharif and Sunah Cho

Teaching methodology used in the master’s degree programme for secondary education teacher training: student assessment

This study analyses future secondary school teachers’ perceptions of the teaching methodology used in a teacher training master’s degree programme. A descriptive study was designed and the data were collected ...

Authors: María del Carmen Pegalajar Palomino

Methodological proposal for the application of international benchmarking in order to assess the quality of virtual higher education

This research focuses on providing a benchmarking methodology that allows any university offering virtual education (e-learning or b-learning) to compare itself to the best international universities in order ...

Authors: Renata Marciniak

Twitter as a resource to evaluate the university teaching process

The widespread use of social networks among college students has an excellent potential for academic purposes. The university has in its own students an important source of information that can be used to eval...

Authors: Jonatan García Suárez, Carmen Trigueros Cervantes and Enrique Rivera García

Assessing the impact of the “Entrepreneurs” education programme on participants’ entrepreneurial intentions

The study of students’ entrepreneurial intentions and the influencing factors is especially relevant for the development of education programmes, as is the monitoring of those programmes to assess whether they...

Authors: Cristina Díaz-García, Francisco Sáez-Martínez and Juan Jiménez-Moreno

Digital literacy for teachers in Cuban Tourism and Hotel Management Schools. Some experiences on its development

Digital literacy for teachers has been a widely studied topic in recent years, and several studies have been conducted featuring student-oriented ICT competency models and frameworks. This research aims to dev...

Authors: Raidell Avello Martínez and Raúl López Fernández

New learning scenarios for the 21^st century related to Education, Culture and Technology

This paper presents a summary of proposals and new learning scenarios for the 21^st century related to the theme of “Education, Culture and Technology”. These proposals and scenarios are based on the work conducte...

Authors: Cristina Yáñez, Alexandra Okada and Ramon Palau

Recent Developments in Technology-Enhanced Learning: A Critical Assessment

Our societies are considered knowledge societies in which lifelong learning is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, digital technologies are entering almost every aspect of our lives and now play...

Authors: Karl Steffens, Brenda Bannan, Barney Dalgarno, Antonio R. Bartolome, Vanessa Esteve-González and José María Cela-Ranilla

Ethics and Education in the Digital Age: Global Perspectives and Strategies for Local Transformation in Catalonia

The purpose of this paper is to provide a global analysis and a synthesis of emerging ethical issues, situations, and questions that face educators using digital technologies. The authors offer a conceptual fr...

Authors: Don Olcott Jr., Xavier Carrera Farran, Eliana Esther Gallardo Echenique and Juan González Martínez

Inclusion and Social Cohesion in a Digital Society

The information and knowledge society requires citizens to be ever more digitally literate. In both formal and informal environments, education has a prominent role in promoting inclusion and social integratio...

Authors: José L. Lázaro Cantabrana, Meritxell Estebanell Minguell and Juan Carlos Tedesco

Teacher training: technology helping to develop an innovative and reflective professional profile

The society of the early twenty-first century is characterized as the knowledge society. Schools cannot afford to remain detached from the fast-moving changes that are taking place and have therefore made inno...

Authors: Pedro Hepp K, Miquel Àngel Prats Fernández and Josep Holgado García

The educational landscape of the digital age: Communication practices pushing (us) forward

This paper identifies trends in the emerging models of knowledge production available in our society. We suggest it is crucial not only to be aware of these emerging models but also to be open to opportunities...

Authors: Janaina Minelli de Oliveira, Danah Henriksen, Linda Castañeda, Marta Marimon, Elena Barberà, Carles Monereo, César Coll, Jabari Mahiri and Punya Mishra

Education and technology: new learning environments from a transformative perspective

The process of digitization that is increasingly entering all aspects of our lives (personal, academic, professional and social) requires education to undergo a profound transformation, and communication and l...

Authors: Mercè Gisbert Cervera and Larry Johnson

Pedagogía y democratización de la universidad

Juan Carlos Tedesco, Claudia Aberbuj e Ivana Zacarías aportan con su obra una reflexión interesante de la situación de la universidad hoy. Realizan su enfoque desde la pedagogía pero con una clara visión de po...

Authors: Josep M. Duart

La expansión del conocimiento en abierto: los MOOC

La irrupción de la formación en abierto, masiva y gratuita ha supuesto una revolución pedagógica en estos dos últimos años, hasta el punto de ser considerada el hito educativo más importante del año 2012. Bajo...

Authors: M. Esther del Moral Pérez

Comparative between quality assessment tools for MOOCs: ADECUR vs Standard UNE 66181: 2012

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have emerged in informative and scientific literature as a revolution with great potential within the educational and training world. However, at the same time, there are di...

Authors: Miguel Baldomero Ramírez Fernández, José Luis Salmerón Silvera and Eloy López Meneses

Beyond objective testing and peer assessment: alternative ways of assessment in MOOCs

MOOCs (massive open online courses) are an online teaching proposal that, in their short lives, have already thrown up two very different possibilities: cMOOCs and xMOOCs. Both are analysed in this paper from ...

Authors: María del Mar Sánchez-Vera and María Paz Prendes-Espinosa

Indicators of pedagogical quality for the design of a Massive Open Online Course for teacher training

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have generated high expectations and revolutionized some educational practices by providing open educational resources for reference, usage and adaptation; therefore, their ...

Authors: Lorena Yadira Alemán de la Garza, Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa and Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño

Self-motivation challenges for student involvement in the Open Educational Movement with MOOC

This article attempts to answer the questions: What are the challenges, problems and obstacles of involving less self-motivated students in MOOCs and how do they relate to their learning connectivism? The corr...

Authors: Brenda Jeanett García Espinosa, Gloria Concepción Tenorio Sepúlveda and María Soledad Ramírez Montoya

A Cluster Analysis of MOOC Stakeholder Perspectives

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are providing opportunities for thousands of learners to participate in free higher education courses online. MOOCs have unique features that make them an effective Technolo...

Authors: Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Marold Wosnitza and Ulrik Schroeder

The Future of MOOCs: Adaptive Learning or Business Model?

Currently, many MOOCs are designed as a collection of videos with a forum using some traditional distance learning models, but they do not promote adaptive and personalized learning. These features, together w...

Authors: John Daniel, Esteban Vázquez Cano and Mercè Gisbert Cervera

The Relationship between Post Formats and Digital Engagement: A Study of the Facebook Pages of Mexican Universities

Higher education institutions have acknowledged the importance of social networks for multiple purposes, such as exploring innovative mechanisms for teaching-learning processes, colonizing new social communica...

Authors: Gabriel Valerio, Dagoberto José Herrera-Murillo, Fernando Villanueva-Puente, Natalia Herrera-Murillo and María del Carmen Rodríguez-Martínez

Mobile learning: perspectives

From a technical perspective, the future of learning is defined by four axes around which technological and methodological efforts revolve. These axes are mobility, interaction, artificial intelligence and tec...

Authors: Juan Carlos Torres Diaz, Alfonso Infante Moro and Pablo Vicente Torres Carrión

Students in higher education: Social and academic uses of digital technology

This article presents the results of an in-depth interview of twenty Education students at a public face-to-face university in Catalonia on how they use digital technologies in their social and academic lives....

Authors: Eliana Gallardo Echenique, Luis Marqués Molías and Mark Bullen

Comparative analysis of public policies in open access models in Latin America. Brazil and Argentina cases

This article presents public policies for open access models in Argentina and Brazil, two countries that have pioneered the subject in Latin America. The methodology used is comparative documentation, whereby ...

Authors: Karen Isabel Cabrera Peña

Model for democratisation of the contents hosted in MOOCs

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as a new educational tool in higher education, based on gratuity, massiveness and ubiquity. Essentially they suggest an evolution of the Open Learning Movement ...

Authors: Javiera Atenas

Analysis of the didactic use of tablets in the European Higher Education Area

This article presents a study in which we analyse the didactic use of tablets in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The competential and didactic use of mobile devices is a challenge for lecturers, stu...

Authors: M. Luisa Sevillano García and Esteban Vázquez Cano

University virtualisation in Latin America

This article analyses the process by which higher education in Latin America is being digitalised, and how it is radically changing the educational dynamics in the region. The incorporation of digital technolo...

Authors: Claudio Rama

University Lecturers’ Conceptions of Ethics and Citizenship Education in the European Higher Education Area: a Case Study

Ethics and Citizenship education has become the focus of considerable debate since the launch of the European Higher Education Area. That this is the case is interesting, as it is a type of education that form...

Authors: Francisco Esteban Bara, Teodor Mellen Vinagre and Maria Rosa Buxarrais Estrada

SIMULACRE: A proposal for practical training in e learning environments

This article describes an educational innovation project called SIMULACRE, funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Cata...

Authors: Alba Colombo and Muriel Gómez Pradas

Learning by comparing with Wikipedia: the value to students’ learning

The main purpose of this research work is to describe and evaluate a learning technique that actively uses Wikipedia in an online master’s degree course in Statistics. It is based on the comparison between Wik...

Authors: Antoni Meseguer-Artola

Social networks as tools for acquiring competences at university: QR codes through Facebook

Immersed in an academic system where the curriculum teaches students specific skills in order to develop a future profession, social networks, as specialised environments primarily in informal education settin...

Authors: Pedro Román Graván and Ángela Martín Gutiérrez

The competency profile of online BMA graduates viewed from a job market perspective

One of the cornerstones of the European Higher Education Area is its emphasis on a higher education that prepares graduates for a profession. Within this context, competencies play a key role in the design of ...

Authors: Àngels Fitó Bertran, María Jesús Martínez Argüelles and Soledad Moya Gutiérrez

E-learning in Economics and Business

E-learning is broadening education horizons all over the world. The contribution sought by this work is to evidence innovations and practices that are applied to teaching environments and fields of knowledge c...

Authors: Josep M. Batalla, Eva Rimbau and Enric Serradell